Chapter 708: To support or to destroy, that's a question
Yin Jun guessed Shao Yifu's thoughts, but he would not debunk him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Three plays. ”
Yin Jun raised his hand and said slowly: "I hope you let Huang Rihua shoot three scenes for me, and the time is not limited." But Kylin Satellite TV will also pay the relevant fees, and after seeking the consent of wireless, it will let him come over to film. ”
"Three dramas?" Shao Yifu showed a look of embarrassment, "Our actors, go to film for other companies, this is ...... It's not easy to do!"
The young man smiled secretly in his heart, but said in his mouth: "Sixth uncle, don't you want to strengthen the cooperation between us? This is a good opportunity! In the future, as long as you can afford the price, our Kirin Satellite TV actors can also film for your ATV! For example, Zhou Yunfa is okay, Wu Weiguo is okay, Liang Chaowei is okay, and Huanxue can too!"
Shao Yifu's mouth moved, but he didn't answer.
He thought to himself that the labor of your Kirin Satellite TV is so expensive, what should I ask them to do?
We are not strong in anything else, but the ability to cultivate talents is first-class, and I train good actors myself, so I don't want your high-priced goods!
But a smile appeared on his face again, "Okay, since Ah Jun you have said so, what else do I have to say? Three dramas are three dramas, you have to use Huang Rihua well!"
"Definitely!" Yin Jun nodded.
"But look, Jun. Shao Yifu climbed up the pole, "You beg the sixth uncle, and the sixth uncle will agree to you immediately." But you recently gave Jiahe a script, why didn't you expect that Uncle Sixth and I also have a film company?"
Yin Jun was stunned, "Shaw?"
"That's right!"
Shao Yifu said enthusiastically, "Our Shaw Brothers is also the largest film company in Xiangjiang, and there are many talents, so we need some ideas and good scripts! If you can also give us a good script, then they will definitely be able to deliver very good results!"
"Sixth Uncle, do you know what my conditions are?" Yin Jun said amusedly.
"I know!" Shao Yifu nodded seriously, "The script is discounted by 10 million, invested in the movie, and participated in dividends according to the proportion of investment." ”
"Then are you still willing?" Yin Junfu laughed.
Shaw Brothers' movies have never been so expensive, Shao Yifu is not a generous person, and his successor manager Fang Yihua can be called the iron rooster among the iron roosters.
But what he didn't expect was that Shao Yifu solemnly bowed his head and said: "As long as you give me a really good script!"
Yin Jun thought that Shao Yifu would talk to him about cooperation on the TV station, but he really didn't expect that what he said was actually Shaw Brothers.
And Shao Yifu actually agreed to the same conditions as Jiahe.
For Yin Jun, this is a little unbelievable.
This doesn't look like the Shao Yifu I know!
The Shaw Brothers at the end of 1980 and the Shaw Brothers in 1978 when Yin Jun first came to Xiangjiang are already different, and they are a bit different.
In 1978, Shaw Brothers produced twenty or thirty movies a year, and in Xiangjiang and other cities, each film could earn one or two million, and the net profit of Shaw Brothers was thirty or fifty million a year, which was running very well.
But this kind of work is good, and it is actually based on the salary and remuneration of the production staff.
Generally speaking, except for Zhang Ce, Chu Yuan, Li Hanxiang and other directors, the rest of the directors and producers are all salaryed, and only when the box office of the movie is good, there are only 1-20,000 yuan of red envelopes.
Even if it is a few big directors, at best, the salary is only about 50,000 yuan, although there are red envelopes, but compared to Xu Guanwen and other directors, it is not known how many times worse.
There are also actors, they are far from being as happy as those movie stars 10 years later, and their treatment can be compared to TVB's TV stars, except for the bitter comparison or bitter comparison.
In a company, only the boss makes money, and all employees and middle and senior employees can't make money, especially in the entertainment industry, how can such a company last?
Therefore, in the past two years, Shaw Brothers has continued to lose talents, went to Golden Harvest, went to New Art City, and went to some small and medium-sized film companies...... Anyway, it just doesn't stay in your Shaw Clan.
And times are changing, and so are the tastes of the audience.
The Shaw Brothers has maintained the film model for twenty or thirty years, and there is no innovation at all, so it is gradually abandoned by the audience.
In 1980, up to November, they had made a total of 28 movies released, but only 11 made money, and the whole thing was calculated, and they only made more than 2 million, which has entered the breakeven point.
It is conceivable that in 1981, with the continuous efforts of New Arts City and Golden Harvest, and the continuous innovation efforts of small and medium-sized film companies such as Baohe and Siyuan, Shaw Brothers will definitely be worse than this year.
Once Shaw Brothers falls into a loss, it is definitely a vicious circle, or three or five years, I am afraid that Shaw Brothers will be directly finished.
Yin Jun can see this clearly, Zou Wenhuai can also see it clearly, and I believe that Shao Yifu himself can see it clearly.
What puzzles Yin Jun the most is Shao Yifu's stubbornness and refusal to change.
In fact, Shaw Brothers is not without a chance to continue his life.
In his previous life, there were obviously several opportunities for the Shaw Brothers to develop and continue to compete with Golden Harvest, but Shao Yifu did not hesitate to give up.
The first Li Xiaolong, needless to say, the pain in Shao Yifu's heart.
But the second Xu Guanwen is the same, knowing that he is a talented and money-making director, but he refuses to give in because of the sharing problem, Xu Guanwen took a few younger brothers to Golden Harvest in a fit of anger, and since then has helped Golden Harvest support Li Xiaolong for more than ten years after his death.
With the previous two lessons, do you think Shao Yifu will pay attention, repent, and reflect?
No.
No.
The third is Wang Jing.
This is the first commercial director in Xiangjiang who can be used by five directors alone, and he is from Shaw Brothers, and his father is also Wang Tianlin, Shao Yifu's most relied on assistant.
Wang Jing has made several consecutive films, making Shaw Brothers make a lot of money, but even so, Shao Yifu did not agree to Wang Jing's normal share request, and still adopted the practice of 200,000 yuan for a movie and two or three hundred thousand big red envelopes.
Wang Jing is filming for money, you said that in such a situation, how could he still stay here?
So Wang Jing also left without looking back.
After losing these three opportunities, and the group of old directors that Shaw Brothers relied on were completely declined, Shaw Brothers naturally disappeared in the film circle of Xiangjiang, even if there was a bit of repetition in the future, it was no longer the mainstream.
It is precisely because he knows Shao Yifu too well that when Yin Jun decided to support TVB, he also set a strategy to destroy the Shaw Brothers.
Yin Jun actually didn't need to do much, as long as he supported Jiahe and Xinyicheng and took Wang Jing away, the Shaw Brothers would decline faster than in their previous life.
What he didn't expect was that today Shao Yifu actually asked Yin Jun to give him a script so solemnly, and was willing to pay the conditions that he was unwilling to pay before.
The script fee of 10 million will also be included in the investment as a share!
At present, affected by various cost increases, Shaw Brothers generally has about 2 million to 3 million yuan for a movie.
The script fee given by Shao Yifu to Yin Jun is enough for Shaw Brothers to make four films.
In Yin Jun's impression, Shao Laoli is definitely not such an atmospheric person?
Looking at Yin Jun's eyes looking at him, Shao Yifu smiled, "Ah Jun, are you thinking, what is crazy about this old man, he has become as generous and arrogant as Zou Wenhuai?"
Yin Jun didn't answer, and he couldn't answer it.
Shao Yifu naturally didn't expect Yin Jun to answer, but said to himself: "When I was younger, in order to survive, my third brother and I walked the streets and alleys to play movies for others. I don't like the feeling of struggling on the existential line, I prefer the feeling of being in control. When I came to Hong Kong, I brought a full 3 million Hong Kong dollars...... With the support of sufficient money, I bought the set, discovered the actors, and poached the stars and directors of my opponents, and I came to this day step by step.
So in fact, Shaw Brothers is not reluctant to spend money, but after the collapse of its biggest rival, Denmao, Shaw Brothers has no rival, and there is no need to spend a lot of money to make movies. In terms of input and output, it is still cost-effective to do small productions, not to mention that Shaw Brothers adopts a large-scale studio system, and the more you shoot, the more cost-effective.
However, with Raymond's back to me, with Li Xiaolong and Xu Guanwen's repeated eyes, Shaw Brothers is not as good as day by day. In the last year or two, I have been pondering whether to close Shaw Brothers and start a TV station seriously? After all, I am old and have limited energy. It is unrealistic to have both sides.
And at this time, you suddenly came out of nowhere, and all TV series and movies are so best-sellers.
Especially the last "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and this time "Police Detective School", all of them made me realize that your script is enough to usher in another peak for Shaw Brothers. It's just that I spent a little more money! It's not like I hadn't done it back then! I'm ready to experiment with a few more films, and if it really doesn't work, then I'll make another plan. ”
Yin Jun listened to Shao Yifu's words, but there were not many waves in his heart.
What Shao Yifu's life is like, Yin Jun knows it clearly.
Although it is possible that Shao Yifu spent a lot of money to find Yin Jun to write a script, and after he succeeded, he would continue to buy Yin Jun's script at a high price.
But he will definitely not be like Golden Harvest, and he will make good movies seriously.
At the same time, Shaw Brothers made money by cooperating with Yin Jun, and it would not bring any benefits to the directors and actors of Shaw Brothers, and the money was still only Shao Yifu's, and it had nothing to do with them.
In this case, what is the difference between Shaw Brothers and Hung Jinbao's Baohe and Wu Siyuan's Siyuan?
Baohe and Siyuan are far from being as stiff as Shaw Brothers, at least they know what it means to buy people's hearts and give actors and directors more benefits, but Shao Yifu will never be like this, he will still use talents as cattle and horses, and give them the same food as cows and horses.
In other words, the cooperation between Shao Yifu and Yin Jun only benefited him and Yin Jun, and did not bring any benefits to the Xiangjiang film industry, but because of the success of Shaw Brothers, the talents who imprisoned Shaw Brothers made it impossible for them to give full play to their abilities.
Looking at Shao Yifu's sincere emotion, the young man remembered in his heart that a few years later, when Shaw Brothers was discontinued, in order to make a final profit, those serious actresses had enough of suffering, and many of them were forced to shoot erotic films, and there were not a few who showed their bodies.
It's not okay not to shoot, otherwise Shaw Brothers will hold the contract so that the actress will not be able to work in the entertainment industry at all.
Such an approach is simply a shame for the film industry!
Even those small film companies have not been able to do such a heartbreaking thing, but it was done by a big philanthropist like Shao Yifu, which is really emotional!
Thinking of this, Yin Jun made a decision in his heart.
"Sixth uncle, the Shaw Brothers are now overpowered. Yin Jun said, "If you ask me to give Shaw Brothers a script, I don't want to, because I don't like Shaw Brothers." ”
Shao Yifu frowned, and couldn't help but feel a little angry in his heart, "My contribution is the same as Jiahe, how can you favor one over the other?"
"Because Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers are not all the way, an ambitious company like Golden Harvest does not simply rely on me, they also have Cheng Long, Xu Guanwen, Hong Jinbao and other elites to struggle and pursue, but here at Shaw Brothers, I only see lifeless. Yin Jun said, "I gave you the script, but I just made money, and I can't contribute to Xiangjiang Films."
In fact, I think Uncle Six, you can gradually give up the film company and concentrate on being your TV station. And then on the movie side, you are actively doing theaters, and as an investor, you participate in the investment of those good movies, which is enough. ”
Shao Yifu snorted coldly: "Could it be that I have become a cancer of Xiangjiang movies?"
"It's not a cancer, but it's not in line with the development of the times. Yin Jun said, "Those who can't adapt to the times will be eliminated, whether we want to or not." Anyway, that's all I'm saying, Uncle Six, think about it! After closing the production of the film company, you can also participate in my films. ”
Shao Yifu's face moved.
This is the benefit that Yin Jun has given himself.
"Could it be that you want the elite talents of the Shaw Brothers?" Shao Yifu said suspiciously, "That's why you persuaded me to close the film company?"
"Of course not. Yin Jun smiled, "There are few people in you who I can look up to, they are all outdated characters, what do you want them to do?"
"Nonsense!"
Shao Yifu stared at Yin Jun and said, "Let's see! I'll let you see, what is called ginger or old spicy!!"
"Good. ”
Yin Jun also got upright, "Then I'll let Uncle Sixth show you what a real modern movie is!"
Shao Yifu had a flash of inspiration in his mind, "Sure enough, you're going to make your own movie!"
"Yes, after accumulating so many years and doing so many things, I finally have the time to do something I like. Yin Jun said, "Sixth uncle, you wait and watch! Xiangjiang movies will inevitably start with me and go to the world!!"